After years of twists and turns and licensing and permitting issues, the second brewery in Boston has opened its doors.

Last week, the Trillium Brewing Company opened its doors at 369 Congress St., in the Fort Point neighborhood, joining the nearby Harpoon Brewery as one of Boston's only two breweries.

Founded by J.C. Tetreault and his wife, Esther, the small brewery began by selling growlers of its beers, and on Thursday the flagship beer, Trillium, debuted at the Publick House and Monk's Cell in Brookline.

Tetreault's idea about founding their brewery is similar to many brewers, Tetreault said.

"I started like a lot of guys in the current wave of new craft breweries, in that I'm a homebrewer," said Tetreault. "I fell in love with beer first and then I fell in love with making beer. I quickly found that all of my free time was reading and practicing to make myself better at it."

The name of the brewery, "Trillium," was inspired by a North American wildflower found in woodlands.

"It's very unique in symmetry and balance, what we strive for our beers to be," said Tetreault. "We're trying to reach that in our farmhouse ales."

On Saturday, I stopped in at the new brewery in Boston to check it out. It's relatively easy to find, although the entrance is on the side of the building, rather than the front, so make sure to look for the sign.

The brewery itself is small, but Tetreault makes use of all the space they have. Due to the low ceilings, the brewery features a lot of custom equipment. They also used repurposed equipment, mostly dairy equipment, now used to brew beer.

Currently, the brewery only sells growlers of beers, as well as shirts and glasses. Currently there are no beer samples offered, but Tetreault is hoping to change that.

Despite every other brewery in the state, including Harpoon, being allowed to offer samples of its beers, the city will not allow Trillium to provide samples to customers.

"An inspector felt we needed to have a bathroom," said Tetreault. "They equated offering samples to consumption."

Tetreault said many liquor stores do beer tastings without a public bathroom, as do other types of businesses, so he said there has to be a way to do it. They are asking patrons to sign a petition to get the city to allow them to offer samples.

However, after trying Trillium's first beer, also named Trillium, I'm going to recommend that you buy a growler of the beer and bring it home to try it.

The Trillium is a wonderful farmhouse beer, brewed with a portions of raw wheat, malted wheat and Pilsner malt. It is phenomenal - it stands up with some of the best beers brewed in Massachusetts. It's dry and easy to drink, with wonderfully spicy flavors and a nice hop kick on the finish.

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"There is not much in it, just Pilsner and wheat (malt - the layers and layers of complexity really arise from the mix of the different brewer's yeast," said Tetreault. "It's got quite a depth of character, but it's easy to enjoy if you're not a beer geek. It has a soft-pillowy mouth feel, but it's pretty aggressively hopped for the style."

Trillium has three other beers planned, the Pot & Kettle oatmeal porter, the Fort Point Pale Ale and Wakerobin, a rye beer.

Due to space restrictions, Tetreault said he plans to release each of the beers one month apart. He also hopes to start bottling his beers in a month and a half or so, and they will be available in 750 ml bottles.